About Amino

Amino has built a modern, user-friendly healthcare navigation app that empowers users to make informed and confident decisions around their healthcare. Our engineering team is small but mighty, and we are searching for a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer to act as a technical lead for the DevOps and Site Reliability disciplines.

We're a startup; you'll wear many hats and have an opportunity to impact the work across the organization. Most immediately, you’ll have an opportunity to work directly with the CTO as well as senior Security and Product leads to define and execute Amino’s 2024 internal platform roadmap.

What you will do

The platform team builds and maintains technology that supports the Availability of Amino’s applications, the Velocity of our development team, and the Security of our overall technology footprint, across our data, data science, application disciplines.

We’ve been around for ten years and have solid fundamentals in all of these areas. We’re excited to continue to evolve our tools and practices to support the next phase of Amino’s growth.

Some examples of big projects you might lead include:

Simplify and consolidate our AWS organization architecture and shared tooling
Improve Observability and Alerting across entire platform, and help level up our incident response processes (Data as well as Product)
Migrating the build, release, and run processes for our containerized services to Fargate
Expand and improve our data orchestration tools in AWS (dbt + Dagster)
Work with security + risk teams to continue shifting security and vulnerability management leftward, and keep us humming and compliant with HIPAA standards and industry best practices
Streamline Access and Data Privacy controls to improve internal developer experience and speed
Teach security and infrastructure fundamentals to our product teams

Your skills and experience

If this is you, we believe you'll have a successful engineering career at Amino!

You are highly autonomous and can design, scope, and lead platform infrastructure projects from high level guidance of business needs.
You’ve lead platform or infrastructure teams for cloud SaaS products – whether as a manager or as a technical lead – and mentored developers with different backgrounds and levels of seniority
You have a track record of pragmatic choices (including build vs. buy) that right-size platform infrastructure to business needs
You have a solid grasp and appreciation for programming fundamentals
You have in-the-weeds experience with Linux server environments, AWS VPC networking, Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration systems
You’ve worked in environments with high standards for information security
You have strong problem solving ability; you’re able to challenge assumptions, approach problems creatively, and can evaluate what others have done in similar situations
You welcome and can effectively give critical feedback
You value the impact of your work for our users as much as the technology itself

The core technologies that Platform Engineers at Amino work with are:

Python
Terraform
Postgres
AWS
Docker
Dagster

You should be very comfortable and opinionated about the best way to build with these, or closely related technologies.

About the Engineering team

We value patience, kindness, and generosity, and we love working in an environment of mutual respect where we are challenged every day. We take time to teach and learn from each other, and practice thorough and thoughtful code reviews to support each other and provide opportunities for knowledge-sharing. We have different backgrounds and levels of expertise, and are unified by our passion for simplifying the complex and making a meaningful impact on the world through our craft. When things go wrong, we look for problems with systems rather than people.

We work on cross-functional teams with product managers and designers to build products from early-stage concepts all the way through to live web products. We work with data engineers to take raw metadata and analyses and turn them into fast, reliable services used by our website and backend products. We ship early and often. We strive for full test coverage to enable us to move quickly and refactor without fear. We make use of continuous integration to automate as much as possible.

We Offer

Amino is a remote-first environment and is authorized to hire in the following states: CA, CO, FL, IL, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA

We’re committed to helping you achieve your best work in a supportive, growth-oriented environment. We have seriously big goals, and expectations are high and we’ll equip you with the tools and resources you need to be successful.
Expected base salary: $165,000.00 to $215,000.00 plus standard company benefits and a generous option grant.

Amino values transparency and has included the reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this full-time role at any approved US location. Individual pay is determined by a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, licensure or certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Amino does not typically hire at or near the top of a salary range.
We offer full-time employees an array of healthcare insurance options including plans with 100% paid employee healthcare premiums; dependent premium coverage depends on the plan.
401(k) through Guideline.
This position, like all roles at the firm, will have a good deal of autonomy. We’re a remote-first team and have designed our culture for a balance of synchronous and asynchronous work with people operating from all over the country. To support your remote office, we provide every new Amino with a generous office set-up allowance plus a monthly stipend for internet/phone.
Amino offers unlimited time off to full time employees.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We know the reputation and track record that the tech industry has, and work hard to be exceptional in this regard.

Covid-19 Policy

As a company focused on helping people live healthier lives, we believe that taking a cautious approach to protect each other, our wider Amino family, and our communities against COVID-19 is aligned with our mission. All Amino personnel are expected to travel to attend in-person team gatherings from time to time, Amino has therefore adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. Upon receipt of a conditional offer of employment for this role, a candidate will be required to certify their vaccination status, and the offer of employment will be conditioned upon, among other things, the applicant’s ability to provide timely certification of full vaccination against COVID-19 . Please note that, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, Amino provides exemptions and reasonable accommodations to its vaccination-related requirements. Therefore if you are unable or unwilling to be vaccinated, such as because of medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, you may request an exemption or accommodation. If you require accommodation, the Company will evaluate your request and work with you to identify reasonable alternatives to vaccination, if available.